美联社新闻一分钟 2006-09-17

1. Bill Clinton was one of the many mourners who attended a service for former Texas Governor Ann Richards in the state Capitol Rotunda¹. Her body will lie in state for the next two days before her funeral and burial.

2. Federal investigators² trace the source of a deadly E. coli outbreak to a California company. The outbreak hit 19 states, killed one woman--77-year-old Marion Graff.

3. A pathologist hired on behalf of Anne Nicole Smith is arriving in the Bahamas today. He will perform a second autopsy³ on her son Daniel who died just three days after Anne Nicole gave birth to a daughter.

4. Protesters made their voices heard during Mexico's 196th Independence Day celebrations. They chanted from the capital square in support of the leftist candidate defeated in the July 2nd presidential election.

WORDS IN THE NEWS


1. rotunda : n-count
A rotunda is a round building or room, especially one with a round bowl-shaped roof.

2. lie in state : phrase
If the dead body of an important person lies in state, it is publicly displayed for a few days before it is buried.

3. on behalf of :phrase
If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.

1 rotunda   

n.圆形建筑物；圆厅

参考例句：

• The Capitol at Washington has a large rotunda.华盛顿的国会大厦有一圆形大厅。
• The rotunda was almost deserted today,dotted with just a few tourists.圆形大厅今天几乎没有多少人，只零星散布着几个游客。

2 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 autopsy   

n.尸体解剖；尸检

参考例句：

• They're carrying out an autopsy on the victim.他们正在给受害者验尸。
• A hemorrhagic gut was the predominant lesion at autopsy.尸检的主要发现是肠出血。